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THE PEN.
An Interesting Talk by Hon. sheri-
dan Jones Mondax Exenin.


Ex-territorial Superintendent Jones
remarked last evening as he begun to
address fair sized audience at the
Congregational church, that it takes a
circus to draw. He said as he arrived
on thetrain yesterday and the circus
tents greeted his eyes he was reminded
that when he came to Mitchell two
years ago to address q teachers insti-
tute happened to be circus day also
"a coincidence that was amusing.
The Pen, said the speaker, though a
small thing, has history. The first
instrument used by the ancients, of
this character, was of steel and was
used to make the impressions desired
on plates of stone, seemingly the ear
llest method of imparting and preserv-
ing the records of the times. Books
are now so easily made that the dis
semination Of evil literature as well
as good is very great. Man with his
inventive genius was soon impatient
of the method of making characters on
stone, and plastic clay was brought in
to use; this proved a good success, AS
after the imprint of the letters was
made the clay was baked and thus cas-
lily preserved. Soon in advance of this
was the pencil made OF camel hair
which could be used to paint on the
bark OF trees and OF wood. The pen
ellis of metal, bone and ivory were re-
| turned to and wood and leaden tablets
used as material But the primitive
pen after the style of which our pens
are now made. was made from GER
tain reed which grew on the river Nile;
with this people could write on parch-
ment. After this the quill of the goose,
swan and crow was used as pen; but
the great pen Of the world now-the
steel pen-was not used till 1903, and
not to a great extent till 1880. They
are now manufactured by the million
and are very cheap.
The Importance of penmanship in
our schools should receive greater at
tention, as every branch of business
and industry is made better by it.
Teachers often lack in this art, and
are sometimes wanting in method in
preparing manuscript which they may
have to exhibit.
There are privileges surrounding the
products of the pen which are given
to no other work. Every other class of
property can be taken from a man fol
debt except the products of his pen
An author is protected also, by ths
copyright law, though this law is more
rigidly enforced in England than it i:
in America.
The habit of preserving the litera
ture of the times, is inherent in the
people of the world. a.
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Honesty Richly Rewarded.

81 think I've found the most generous
woman in New York" said Maiden lane
diamond merchant to friend in the Astor
house rotunda the other day.
"Proceed with your story" replied the
other, resting his elbow on the polished
bar
"Ted, my little Office boy" the mer.
chant continued "found u lady's pocket.
book the other day. 1t contained about
500 in cash and several valuable papers
valuable to the owner, / mean. He
picked it up near the door of my store,
but as no one saw him do it he could
easily have kept the money without any
one being aware of the fact. 1t must
have been quite q temptation to the little
chap, for he only earns $3.50 Il week and
his folks are very poor. But he brought
it right in to me like little man. I
watched the papers, but it was not adver-
tised. Several days passed and had be-
the finder, when l learned from u friend
that q wealthy lady customer of mine
who lives in Fifth avenue had suffered n
loss of this kind. sent Ted up with the
purse. Sure enough, it was hers When
he had explained how he found, it she be-
came demonstrutive over the honest way
he had acted. She patted his head and
declared that it did her good to know that
there really was one honest boy in New
York. You'll not go unrewarded,
ether she added. Just come with me. )
He went with her into an adjoining room,
and then what do you suppose she gave
him as q reward?"
"Oh, $40, perhaps, /" returned the friend.
The diamond man smiled. ''The re-
ward she gave him. he added, "was u
big piece of huckleberry pic-simply that
and nothing more. New York Tribune
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rynerriters in Siam.

Prince Dcvawongse is evidently thrifty
soul, and has an eye very wide open for
the main chance. While he was in Lon
don he bought typewriter Of American
manufacture, and he was so well pleased
with it that he thinks of introducing the
machine i'll his OWL country. Writing the
Siamese language is very laborious bust
ness, and typewriters would be appre-
ciated by the commercial classes there if
the machine can only be made so as to
write in the native tongue. A representa-
tive of the manufacturers of the machine
purchased by the prince in London called
at the Fifth Avenue hotel this morning
and had long conference with the
princes secretary upon the subject. The
language spoken by the Siamese not only
has eighty-four letters in the alphabet,
but the line is divided into four different
spaces, which must be observed in writing,
just as by Europeans in stcnography.
Whether the typewriter can be made to
fill the requirements in this sort Of
writing is now the problem, and if it can
be successfully done the prince will doubt
less have large number sent over.-New
York Commercial Advertiser
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Good Advice to Young Journalists.

In Petroleum V. Nasby's (N1r. Locke's)
fine office in Toledo one day u short time
ago made the remark that the newspaper
field was overcrowded-too many papers
and too many writer's. Nasby converted
me to another way of thinking.
can exchange editor,' Mr.. Locke said,
''sifts over a pile of perhaps 100 papers.
One after another he discards them with
out opening at all. He knows there is
nothing in them he cares to see. Out of
the 100 he carefully looks over five, six or
ten.
"Put all the papers in the United States
in one big pile" he continued, ''pick them
over as the exchange man did, and it will
amaze you to see how many sickly, abort
i've publications exist. If well trained
and energetic young men among legiti-
mate newspaper workers were to take
hold of such sheets and learn that the big
cities are not all Of this world they could
become independent, respected and useful
citizens almost in o day."
l call to mind q young man who worked
eighteen hours a day on western New
York daily about two years ago as po-
lice reporter He acted on the Nasty
principle, and is now local power i'll
running weekly newspaper in one of the
eastern states. His example could be
safely followed by at least 500 impecuni-
Gus people in the city of New York today.
Mcdonald in Buffalo Express.
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kIMBALL.
Special to the REpunL,cAs.

Special to the REPUBLICAN,.
klNIBALL, Sept. 6.-The base ball
tournament announced for Sept. 7th
and 9Th, will take place. and a good
time is expected. Four clubs will be
here, Woonsocket, Planklnton, White
Lake and Kimball. and two games
will take place each day.
Last week the ladies of the Presby-
terian church gave social and supper,
netting them S21.
This evening the ladies of the Meth
odist church will give an ice cream So
cial.
y rifle of excitement was created on
our streets by little affray between
Father Stack and Mr.. j. p. Beebe 1t
appears that the reverend father was
too free in the use of such words as
liar. etc, and then followed them up
with blow from his gold headed cane
over the head OF Mr.. Beebe. A blow
in his face from Beebe ended the mat
ter.
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Alleged Suicide of Scorpions.

Professor A. G. Bourne has made u
number of experiments on three species Of
scorpions found at Madras, with the object
Of determining whether the popular notion
that scorpions can commit suicide is true.
He finds that it is undoubtedly physically
impossible for a scorpion to sting itself in
vulnerable place, and when one is placed
in very unpleasant circumstances it not
unfrequently lashes its tail about and
causes actual penetration of the sting.
But the poison of a scorpion is quite
powerless to kill the same individual or
another of the same or even of another
species. Two scorpions, when fighting,
repeatedly sting one another with little, if
any, effect, the stronger killing the weaker
by tearing it to pieces. The poison may
be pressed out of the sting with the fingers
or pair of forceps, when it is found to be
of q milky white fluid with very pungent
smell resembling that of formic acid
Scientific American,
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will appeal to the courts to have the
value OF the cotton restored to them in
United States currency out of the es-
tate of the man who traded his free ne
grOeS for it,"
Why He Controls Them.

N. Y. Sun: Among the forcible CON-
parsons with which Henry George
decorated his speech last night was
this:
The only reason horse allows a
smaller creature to control him is that
the horse doesn't think and the man
does. Thus with our party.
And yet lots of examples are to be
had which indicate that horses think
as nationally as some of Mr.. Georges
followers. Besides, Mr.. George is all
wrong as to his facts, for we have re.
Gently learned that the reason why a
horse is submissivelies in the fact that
his eye magnifies greatly, so that the
man who controls him appears very
much bigger and more powerful than
he is.
"Thus with our party" says Mr.
George. Very likely. There is every
indication that his party looks upon
him with the equine eye, and that is
the reason why he controls it, One of
these days his party's eye will resume
Its normal power of sight,
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Encampmcnt Notes.

I1uHoN, Sept. Camp Church is
the most orderly place in town. There
was much target practice today. Gov
ernor Church yesterday reviewed the
brigade. The companies drill for the
silver cup prize comes tomorrow.
FARGO, Sept. eff is alleged here
that Coils. Brown and Webb, dismissed
from the governors staff, got out and
caught cold while attending to their
duties. and took something to brace
themselves up, and that the real rea-
sons for dismissing them were pollti-
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Gladstone and tho Reporter.

In the election, when Mr.. Gladstone
sought to become the member for South
Lancashire, he was speaking at St.
Helens. He had his notes in his hat. A
we'll known Lancashire reporter was be-
low, with his watch placed before him on
the table. Mr.. Gladstone, in his fervor,
Knocked over hat and notes; they fell with
q crash on the reporters watch, which
launched itself upon the floor A finer
tableaux than the reporter picking up his
damaged watch, Nh. Gladstone receiving
his hat and notes, and d great Lancashire
crowd cheering and laughing, never was
seen.-London Journalist.
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A Terrible Rumor.

Plankinton Standards: A rum,r at
the west side of the county, has it that
Father Wilhelm, the quondam priest
of this parish has departed from one of
the most sacred creeds of his order,
and taken unto himself wife. Verify,
this is an age when religious vows lie
lightly upon the clergy.
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!iE NEVER LOST FAITH.
lmple of the Men that Made Slav.
cry and Rebellion Possible.

cry and Rebellion Possible.
Nashville Banner: 1 never told you
bont my grandfather down in Louisi-
fla, did ~ said a gentleman from At
enta, Ga, to Banner reporter today.
ile lived on Red river and owned a
Y plantation before the war. He
gas red-hot confederate sympathizer,
Rnd he regarded Gen. Lee and Bob
combs as the greatest men in the
Fofld, At the breaking out Of the
ar ne equipped whole company at
lis own expense. Well, the war went
ph, and whenever the conlederates
Son victory he celebrated the occa-
hon by giving grand dinner, to
Spieh all of his neighbors were in
Elted. Confederate soldiers were vel
eoms to anything on the plantation.
fie even supplied several officers with
servants. :. lie owned about 300 ne
groes.
-llong about the latter part of 1864
ERhu the early part of 1865, when things
4eooNed dark for the confederacy and
OF gloom was lowering over the
eoutl, the old gentleman never lost
palth He looked upon the army of
northern Virginia as invincible and un-
BY and by the news
lalne I that Lee Ii ID surrendered his gal
ta,it L. army at Appomatox, but grand
ldther said old Joe Johnston and Beau
regard We're still in the field, and with
.Jell Davis and Bob Toonbs to back
.hem the southern sun would yet come
oul OUT clear and bright. Then the news
ea!he that Johnson's army had stacked
arms, but still the old gentleman didn't
Naver. On the contrary. ilis faith
seemed to gain strength. Cotton was
North more than its weight ia gold
y 20 q pound lie had $40
inales. One of his neighbors had but
i1l'le ! cotton. but plenty ofurgroes who
iaa nav no. y:'l learned of their freedom.
", preferred negroes tn cot
to!i and SO hc traded his ouU bairs for
s.aFro at $1,000 each. Three months
noIl the date OF transfer every negro
y" ~, 'le place was gone except a few
'lp''Se servants. The confederacy was
and the slaves were free.
4, D1d the old man complain? Not
~ T;e' lie never even thought hard Of
nus nls neighbor for paying him for hi,
Sostoh in negroes. He died about four
fears fe ago with the belief that the con-
IIIIiuefaacy would yet be established.
81. mts \, plantation was divided among his
'"i'oren, and have learned that they
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A I,loodless Man,

Otto Schneider, corporal in the Ger
man army, apparently has no blood.
Knives and daggers can be run through
his body without harming him in the
least. A committee of distinguished sur
geons say they cannot explain the miracle.
Schroeder will exhibit himself in Berlin,
London, Paris and America when his
time in the army is out.-Boston Tran
script.
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The D. W. e. p.

Harrison Globe: The surveyors of the
Duluth, Watertown s. Pacific railway
passed through town Sunday. They
are running a preliminary line from
Plankinton to Wheeler Maj. q. III.
lsom the engineer in charge tells us
that he thinks the road will be graded
to Wheeler this year. He has thirteen
men in his surveying party, and says
that the locating line will be run be-
fore they leave the field.
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Yankton Wins the Cup.
Special to the REPUBLICAN,.

Special to the REPUBLICAN
HURON, Sept. 6.-ln the prize drill
ling for the Polack silver cup this
morning only the companies from
Yankton, Redtield and Brookings
competed, and Yankton won. In the
knock out drill for the Tyner medal
Corporal A. w. Ransom, of Redleld
took the badge.
The Manitoba graders began grading
here this morning,
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Our Fellow Citizens.

Alexandria Advocate: Major Israel
Greene of Mitchell, one of the earliest
settlers in Dawson county, was in town
yesterday. The Major is one Of those
candid, straight up and down, dyed-in-
the-wool democrats who does not ap-
pear to have very exalted opinion of
the tricks and methods, resorted to by
the ring masters Of the present mixed
administration, to which the "man of
destiny" is only an over estimated and
misrepresented side show.
Senator Frank GoodykoontZ, the tall
hemlock of the Missouri slope was in
town yesterday on mysterious and i'm
port;snt business. Mysterious because
the Senator was as mum lis an oyster
when we applied the reportorial pump,
important because he seldom figures in
small cases.
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The International Military encamp-
ment will he held at Chicago October
1st to 2O.h inclusive, and the Chicago
exposition Sept. 7th to Oct. 22d inclu-
sive. TO persons wishing to attend
the exposition and encampment, tick
cts will be sold oyer the Royal Route
at 1924 for round trip. Tickets will be
sold on Sept. 9th and 7tl, good to re-
turn until Sept. 18th; on Sept 18th and
14th, good to return until Sept. goth;
on Sept. goth and 2lst, good to return
until Sept. 9th; on Sept. 9th and 2Sth,
good to return until Oct 4th; Oct. 4th
and 5th. good to return until Oct. ilth;
on Oct. 1lth and 18th, good to return
until Oct. 18Th; on Oct. 18th and 10Th,
good to return until Oct. 25th.
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lnuliOll, w. w ldluuCA Woo op-
Eel Justice of the Peace to till a
Enry.
motion of John Cook, ELS. Johns
OF Mt. Vernon, was appointed
bty surveyor.
h. auditor was instructed to issue
btice Tor the annual election in and
Davison CO., according to law, for
following purposes:
70 elect one commissioner for dis
u No. |.
fo elect one commissioner for dis
Et No. =.
70 vote upon the question of divis-
| OF the territory.
20 vote upon the question of local
Eion.
fhe following resolution was adopt
Resolved, That special election be
ii in and for Dawson county, OAK,
the first Tuesday after the first
pnday i'll November 1887, and that
question OF purchasing tract Of
Ad tor a poor farm upon which to
al'! an asylum ior the poor of said
llDty, be submitted to the voters OF
III county at sad election.
sine die.
II. I. ROBINSON, AUDITOR.
hereby certify the above to bs a
riect report of the proceedings of
board OF the commissioners of
iFlson county at the special session
ID ,ptember 5, 1887.
IL. 4. ROBINSON, Auditor.
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Rev. Marcus Alden Talman, an Episcopal
rector of Mauch Chunk, Pa, has chair
which belonged to the Priscilla courted by
John Alden for Miles Standish when she said,
"Why don't you speak for yourself, John!"
He is descendant Of John Alden, while
Thomas Lansford Foster, one of the vestry-
men of his church, is descendant of Miles
Standish
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ryrY COMMISSIONERS.
|reDort of the Special Meeting

kKrUOft OF tHe oPCOt"' NHc0stHS
/ 10 Levy Taxes.
H. session of the Board of Coun-
Enissioners Sept. 5, 1887.
4 to order at 1902. m.
Ent 4. Platner. w. w. Gardner,
[ook and E. G. Malmsbury.
bujitor was instructed to place
lowing levies upon the different
Fo he collected as taxes for the
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1t is not generally 1nown that in Ethiopia
people numbering about 100000 have the
Old Testament i'll Ethiopic version and still
adhere strictly to the Mosaic ceremonies and
laws. They are the children of Hebrew i'm
migrants who in the time of the great dis
persion settled in Abyssinia and married
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A musician in Washington says that he is
prepared to prove that the Boulanger march
is nothing more nor less than the "Marguerita
POLKA" written about fifteen years ago in
honor of the Italian queen.
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Cincinnati is to have monument to the
memory Of President Harrison. Artists are
now at work OH the designs, and selection
will soon be made. The statue will be un-
veiled i'll the fall of 1855, OH the centennial
anniversary Of the city OF Cincinnati
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The census of paupers in London, exclusive
of lunatics i'll asylums and vasrants, for the
first week of July shows: Indoor, $3.50;
outdoor, 35, ,o29; total, S7,s45; against s3, $40
for the corresponding week of 1856. These
are rather startling figures.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-04

The best drinking fountains for
fowls2 Wei, don't know. | have
tried q good many different kinds ii
patented drinking fountains, but, after
all, ] like common glazed milk crooks,
gallon size, better than anything else.
They are cheap, easily kept clean, and
are high enough, 50 that the f0wls
don't often scratch dirt into them. II
you buy any Of the patented fountains,
Be sure and procure one that you can
get At the inside Of when necessary 70
clean IL
anyway, keep your poultry supplied
with clean water, Don't let it set in
The sun where il will soon become
warm and unit 10 drink, but set in the
shade Il there Is any shady place ham
dy. II not, make cover Of this fash
ion: Drive four stakes into the ground
about two feet apart, and so that they
viii stand about Is inches high when
sawed of square at The top; nail wide
board to the tops Of the stakes, and the
thing Is done. Haven't any board that
wide2 Then make one by fastening
narrow boards together with cleats
nailed across Fanny Field in Farm
er.
Would that farmers could see the
importance of having drinking foun-
tains " on the farm in convenient
places for more than fowls-for every
= kind that walks. Let all have the
pure and sparkling water without
wAich the best thrift is impossible.
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A spicy writer in the American POul-
try Yard says:
q When the woods are crowded fun
Of new varieties Of this, that and t'other
breed, u Is wen 10 occasionally call the
attention Of beginners and veteran
breeders to the old stAnd-bys, 70 let
the general public know that the old
color-bearers haxen't gone anywhere
vet, but are still in the field, as fresh
as ever, with hosts Of new admirers
and ardent supporters. So we ask you
TO look in on our Plymouth Rocks to-
day, not because they are the source
from which there lately spr6ng two
very popular and useful varieties the
White and the Pea-combed-but be-
cause they have within themselves
nearly every quality Of Use, and
hsaufy o. no mean order, when well
bred.
. utility is written all over the Plym-
oush Rock in letters a. plain as grace
Is written upon the fern or modesty
uron the lowly violet. This Il indeed
the solution q les wonderful popular
ify with the common people. Perhaps
40 breed will ever become 50 thor
onxhly disseminated as the Plymouth
Rocks have. Certain il Is that no
breed viii leave such lasting and plain
traces Of lis former existence in al
most every nook and corner Of the
land as the Plymouth Rocks, if for
no other reason than that it possesses
the stamping q color and general char
acteristics IN q greater degree than
many older and al younger breeds.
+" As egg producers, IS hatchers and
mothers. As q good enough table fowl,
Is energetic foragcrs and as hardy
fowls, commend us 20 = weil-bred flock
az these same common, household
word fowis-the old hue barred PiySa.
outh Rocks"
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-04

Farmer McKean, near Saltwater,
Minn. told the other day how he man
aeed = avoid chineh bug raid this
year, and he told IL in his own quaint
way: " know when I've got enough,
and had enough chfnch bugs during
the past few years, and I saw no way
- head EN- al bnt TO quit raising
wheat or even trying to. didn't 70
round proclaiming this decision from
the keasetop, IS I was willing my
ne.ghbors should be converted In thefr
own way: but Just simply went 20
work. as The saying IL, and didn't do
anything. I've got about lac acres In
grass, and ] have faith Ike grain Of
mmsaard seed that alfhough may not
have mofe thAn Toe tons, yet as 4
,derned sight better than - SOW two or
three hundred acres 70 wheat and get
nothing bat q few tens a. cheap
straw" This Is putting into success
ful practice the hints Of the entomol-
oEists
This quAins way Of stating the case
BY Farmer McKean Apply illustrates
the DISABILITIES Of wheat farming IN
Minnesota, where even less than ton
70 the acre Of hay Is better than rails
ing whea1 That saying of Greelsy's,
that : grass i king , aPtly alustrat-
ed in more ways than pissing Il against
cotton